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Difiore Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$222k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of DIFIORE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$901k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH SYMPHONY OPERA$60,000
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH$30,000
WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS$20,000
SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY$10,000
MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL$515
UTAH PHYSICIANS FOR A HEALTHY ENVIR$500
KENYA KEYS$500
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$200
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%People Helping People: $5k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$588k · 10 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$588k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+94%

Still filing today

30%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BW
    BALLET WEST
    4× · 2017–2023 · $155k · revenue +69%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH
    2× · 2018–2019 · $13k · revenue +172%
  • MM
    MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • SL
    SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • UO
    U OF U FILM MEDIA ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • PH
    PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +94%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
2
Utah Geological Foundation
3
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
4
Salt Contemporary Dance Inc

Expand the awareness, reach and capacity of salt unique performances and festivals. continuously seek and create emerging and cutting-edge performances to stay at the most forefront of the dance industry. educate dancers and community…

Arts & Culture
5
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
7
Utah Arts Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
8
Save Our Great Salt Lake
Environment
9
Utah Symphony & Opera

Mission - Connect the community through great live music. Vision - Perform, engage, inspire. The artistic leadership of the organization is committed to representing a broad range of musical styles, including traditional works,…

Arts & Culture
10
Utah Public Health Association

The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…

Health
11
Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc

Utah clean energy's mission is to lead the clean energy transformation with vision and expertise. our vision for the future is healthy, thriving communities for all, empowered and sustained by clean energy.

Environment
12
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wasatch Adaptive Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kenya Keys. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM — $102,000 · OtherNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $90,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHIndividual grant recipient — $87,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUTAH SYMPHONY OPERA — $70,000 · OtherUTAH SYMPHONY OPERAUtah Museum of Natural History — $36,000 · OtherUtah Museum of Natural HistoryST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $30,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCHCOLLEGE OF FINE ARTS — $21,810 · OtherSALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $20,000 · OtherWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC — $20,000 · Other+10 more — $46,250 · Other+10 moreBALLET WEST — $155,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTTHE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIET…+1 more — $1,515 · Arts & CultureTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST — $43,900 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $5,000 · Human ServicesUtah Pride Center Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesUTAH PHYSICIANS FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT — $500 · EnvironmentKENYA KEYS — $500 · Education
Other$523,760Arts & Culture$166,515Philanthropy$43,900Human Services$10,000Environment$500Education$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBALLET WEST — $155,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST — $43,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUtah Pride Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $1,515 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH PHYSICIANS FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENYA KEYS — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BALLET WEST
  • Who funds THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST
  • Who funds WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH
  • Who funds THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY
  • Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE
  • Who funds Utah Pride Center Inc
  • Who funds MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds UTAH PHYSICIANS FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
  • Who funds KENYA KEYS

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Difiore Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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